Jerry Jones confirms Mike McCarthy would be the Cowboys’ play caller in 2023
Dallas Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones confirmed Wednesday that head coach Mike McCarthy will name offensive performs subsequent season.
The transfer will mark the primary time since 2012 a Cowboys head coach serves as a play caller. Jason Garrett referred to as the offensive performs that season.
McCarthy is extensively anticipated to run a model of the West Coast offense he used from 2006 to 2018, when he was with the Packers.
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Head coach Mike McCarthy of the Dallas Cowboys towards the San Francisco 49ers through the first half in an NFC divisional playoff recreation at Levi’s Stadium Jan. 22, 2023, in Santa Clara, Calif.
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“This is the logical step to build on it and use what we’ve established, if you will, the foundation of the things we’ve got,” Jones instructed reporters on the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alabama. “This is the time for us to build on it. That’s what this is, a building step.”
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Veteran quarterback Dak Prescott will expertise a change to an offensive system for the primary time in his NFL profession.
Dallas drafted Prescott within the fourth spherical in 2016. Since then, the Cowboys have employed variations of an identical offense, even after they employed completely different coordinators. Scott Linehan was the group’s offensive coordinator from 2016 till 2018. Former quarterback Kellen Moore was introduced after in Linehan, however Moore parted methods with the group Sunday.
Three days later, the Chargers named Moore their subsequent offensive coordinator and held an introductory press convention.
Dak Prescott and head coach Mike McCarthy of the Dallas Cowboys go to throughout warmups earlier than a recreation towards the Cincinnati Bengals at AT and T Stadium Sept. 18, 2022, in Arlington, Texas.
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“Felt like I was kind of in that space,” Moore mentioned in regards to the determination to depart Dallas. “It works for both sides.”
Dallas additionally parted methods with a number of different coaches final week, together with assistant head coach Rob Davis, senior defensive assistant George Edwards, former Miami head coach Joe Philbin, operating backs coach Skip Peete, assistant line of defense coach Leon Lett and high quality management analyst Kyle Valero.
Jones additionally confirmed the Cowboys carried out interviews with Jeff Nixon and Thomas Brown for the offensive coordinator emptiness.
Head coach Mike McCarthy of the Dallas Cowboys and Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones speak with the media throughout a press convention on the Ford Center at The Star Jan. 8, 2020, in Frisco, Texas.
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Nixon presently serves as a Panthers assistant head coach, whereas Brown is the Rams’ tight ends coach. Whoever Dallas hires as an offensive coordinator will doubtless help McCarthy all through the follow week with recreation planning and play design.
“It will be, in principle, the way he operated in Green Bay, which I’m sure he’ll tell you evolved,” Jones famous.
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The Cowboys completed the common season with a 12-5 document and reached the playoffs for a second consecutive season. Dallas gained a highway recreation within the postseason for the primary time in 30 years when the group defeated the Buccaneers within the wild-card spherical.
